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Describes the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiances, and boyfriends on the inside. This book shows that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men.

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"The claim that prison can be a source of welfare provision, health care, and even romantic intimacy for people typically denied more adequate ways to meet these human needs will strike many readers as counterintuitive and politically problematic, but it is true nevertheless. Megan Comfort's beautifully written book does a brilliant job of tracing this, and other, complex truths in a detached, detailed, and thoroughly insightful manner." - David Garland, author of The Culture of Control"

Doing Time Together

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    A Paperback / softback by Megan Comfort

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 May 2008
      ISBN-13 9780226114637
      978-0226114637
      ISBN-10 0226114635
      Also in:
      Gender studies: women and girls Penology and punishment Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Describes the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiances, and boyfriends on the inside. This book shows that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men.

      Trade Review
      "The claim that prison can be a source of welfare provision, health care, and even romantic intimacy for people typically denied more adequate ways to meet these human needs will strike many readers as counterintuitive and politically problematic, but it is true nevertheless. Megan Comfort's beautifully written book does a brilliant job of tracing this, and other, complex truths in a detached, detailed, and thoroughly insightful manner." - David Garland, author of The Culture of Control"

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